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Hate crimes against asylum-seekers rarely receive media coverage or public attention in Israel, but they continue unabated and most of the perpetrators are never brought to justice. The victims are afraid of filing complaints with the police or feel that there is no point in doing so, and policemen at times belittle the victims. In…

By Sara Stern English language and education are consistently expressed by the refugee-asylum seeker community in Israel as significantly important towards making an impact on their lives and their future. The first time I really became aware of this was in 2008 when I was volunteering with the newly arrived Sudanese refugees in Jerusalem, and…

More than 120 years have passed since May Day was first celebrated as the workers’ struggle day. Despite significant progress that has been made in the past century, such as the inclusion of workers’ rights into the public discourse and protests, and progressive labor law legislation, many employers continue to overwork and underpay their workers,…

By Yeela Raanan Early in December it seemed that justice had prevailed, as former Minister Benny Begin announced that he has recommended to the Prime Minister to stop the Prawer Law, and the Prime Minister agreed. However, only four days later the Knesset continued to deliberate the law, as if nothing had happened. Now we…

By Dr. Yeela Raanan, Regional Council of Unrecognized Villages of Negev (RCUV) The judge ruled that Sheikh Sayah, the leader of the village of El Araqib, should pay NIS 10,000 bail and must stay at least 2 km away from his home. And what did Sheikh Sayah do to deserve this punishment? Nothing. Well…

By Dov Caller and Alan Traister “If the Arabs keep coming, Jews will leave and we will even end up with an Arab mayor. The attempt to elect representatives of the Arab community to the city council shows that Karmiel is on the way to becoming a mixed city. Karmiel of 2013 is fighting…

by Dr. Thabet Abu Rass September 2013 marks two years since the Israeli government approved the Prawer Plan. The plan intends to uproot tens of thousands of Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel from their villages, to demolish their homes, and to confiscate an overwhelming majority of their lands. The government proposed this plan as a…

There are those who believe that everything that’s privatized is more efficient and everything run by the government necessarily falls short. Haaretz’s Nehemia Shtrasler champions this approach. I believe that this is a myth, but this doesn’t mean that I support the opposite myth, either. I know that government-run systems are liable to be bureaucratic…

A full year has passed since the start of the social protest – and the struggle continues. There are those who maintained that, in light of the demonstrations of hundreds of thousands of protestors, the rightist government “will get the message” and will eventually come towards the demands of the masses for social justice and…

As it turns out, last summer’s social protests were actually aimed at the Arabs and the ultra-Orthodox (Haredim). They only seemed to be against big business. That, at least, is the implication of the prime minister’s statements in his recent interview to Sami Peretz and Moti Bassok (“The Marker”, April 5). After declaring that without…